King of the Hill

"When the world turns upside down, the trick is coming out on top."

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast

Jesse Bradford

Aaron Kurlander

Jeroen Krabbé

Mr. Kurlander

Lisa Eichhorn

Mrs. Kurlander

Karen Allen

Miss Mathey

Spalding Gray

Mr. Mungo

Elizabeth McGovern

Lydia

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Cameron Boyd

Sullivan

Adrien Brody

Lester